Eastwood Elementary School

15730 Pescados Drive

School District

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified
Grade

K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:21
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on June 18, 2024

There are a couple teachers specifically that must control their anger and need to stop yelling at the children, rolling their eyes, answering sarcastically, and reprimanding them for speaking up and saying the student is "talking back" or for children with sensory issues that end up crying, cover their ears, and in ine extreme case soiling themselves due to the yelling. Teachers never apologize instead degrade the child in front of their peers. Principal will do nothing and begrudgingly take phone calls or appointments. Back to school and parent-teacher meetings are capped at 20 minutes maximum.
Submitted by parent on December 14, 2023

So disappointed in this school. Why does the principal keep hiring bad teachers. Students aren’t learning anything or being challenged in any way. Their student of the month is based off of PBIS. Be safe be respectful and be responsible. My daughter said a boy got an award for being safe but he goes around and kicks his friends. Their student of the month award system is so subjective. I wish they would bring back the traditional academic/character student of the month back. PBIS is to help students work together to prevent behavior issues and support positive learning environment, for every correction there should be 5 praises, it’s not to separate students by giving them awards to point out who is being safe as if others are not being safe, or being respectful or being responsible. You do that with academics. There is hardly any extracurricular activity other than esports. That’s just playing video games, don’t try to sugar coat it by saying it’s building teams. They don’t even have enough up to date equipments. As I look forward to next year, I feel so hopeless as next year teachers are just as bad as current year. Teachers don’t have the mastery level to teach anything beyond 3rd grade level. That’s why only kinder teachers are getting teacher of the year. Students writing and math is Mickey Mouse club, Homework is busy work nothing critical. Math HW is one piece of paper downloaded and printed from the internet, Why? Just send home homework and remembering workbook so students can complete one page a day. Stop sending unnecessary busy work as homework wasting time. Don’t let test scores fool you. It’s the Asian parents sending their kids to after school programs where they get the real learning done. Take a Look at the academic progress; This is where teachers can really shine but they don’t. No progress from one grade to the next. 4/10 means this school has bad teachers. They are just there to collect paycheck. They are losing students every year and they might lose one more. I heard escolona and gardenhill has better learning environment.
Submitted by parent on October 21, 2023

At the moment I’m highly disappointed with the schools culture and environment. I’m currently questioning the safety and well being of all students, and questioning the decisions of the adults in charge. The school can be better with the right leadership team and the right amount of supportive teachers. Teachers willing to stand up to leadership for that change they know is needed. So far my child has only had one extremely supportive & impactful teacher in our experience at Eastwood, and I wish my student could stay in the classroom with this teacher throughout all grades. The school puts too much focus and emphasis on less important topics and does not in turn put that same focus & energy on resolving the more severely important issues currently happening at this school right underneath the parents noses. It’s been this way for the past three years. This school also majorly lacks in its communication with their parent partnerships and desperately needs improvement in this area as well. The school has a very well known bully issue in all grades regarding male & female students, and this issue is never resolved year after year. The school tends to “swipe things under the carpet” but doesn’t realize (or is in denial about it) their parent community & partnership are fully aware of what is going on and taking place in the school. So much so many parents feel the need to resort to taking matters into their own hands for faster results. The school leadership needs to drastically improve on making their parent partnerships feel heard, seen, understood, validated and take our concerns about our children’s safety more seriously. School Leadership needs to approach all parent partnerships with understanding, respect and empathy at all times instead of blowing us off and not wanting to actively listen. Again this is a partnership between leadership and parents. The disappointment I have is beyond words because I know our school can thrive. We do have a great & strong parent community and some really great students, but what is taking places in School Leadership is slowly bringing down the unity and culture of the school environment, and we are quickly losing the parents interest on remaining at Eastwood. Eastwood has the ability to be a great school, I truly believe that, but major and necessary improvements with productive results are needed immediately. At this point even the district is failing us. Change is needed and we deserve the results we are asking for.
Submitted by parent on June 07, 2018

Great school, good teachers and cares about multi-cultural context.
Submitted by parent on September 26, 2017

Wonderful school. Great leadership from Principal Cantu and amazing, caring teachers.
Submitted by parent on November 11, 2016

I thought we would enjoy this school but unfortunately we are quite disappointed. All we have experienced is disorganization and lack of communication. The PTA has been anything but welcoming and seems to want to stay only within their current members. Messages or announcements are hardly given on time and often posted on the PTA's Facebook mid way through the week when activities such as red ribbon, fall festival are going on. It's quite frustrating. The school seems to be big on Academics but I can't see where at maybe due to lack of communication. Hopefully the year will get better. If not, we will be enrolling else where. We really thought this would be a great school but no one seems to be to inviting or welcoming instead you feel like a pain when you ask questions :(